Situation now: If I use the button "show all products from this manufacturer" on the manufacturer details page, it leads to a generated site with joomla config standard keys and descriptions and no describing mf-text and mf-logo

Why to change this?:I think it would be really fine for some SEO reasons to do that, because the combination of important keywords and information in manufacturer description texts, manufacturer logo with alt-text and meta keys, generell meta keys and descriptions (if you assign a joomla menue entry to the virtuemart manufacturer details page it´s possible to set up metadata! - ok finally it does not work with jml 2.5.6, but you can put some manual edited keys and descriptions to view.html.php in components/com_virtuemart/view/manufacturer/view.html.php), H1 paragraph and finally a lot of productlinks maybe named with the manufacturer leads to good seo results for this manufacturer-brand.

In my case, we generated a good portion of traffic about the manufacturer names, maybe because there aren´t this famous as others ... Does anybody is in the same boat with me? Would appreciate any help or idea

I am afraid I didn´t solve this issue yet. I was wondering why there are so less pp replying to this treat. Maybe there is a lack of people who try to generate traffic over the brandnames, I don´t know.If I will find an answer by myself next time, I post it for sure!

I'm not sure if this will help you, but it works for my requirements.I needed to bypass the manufacturer details page and go straight to a list of manufacturers products, but include the relevant manufacturer-description and image at the top of the page.I have already set the VM configuration to hide categories in the product browse pages.

In components/com_virtuemart/views/category/view.html.phpUnder the line (182 for me)

$this->assignRef('manufacturerImage', $manufacturerImage);$this->assignRef('manufacturer',$manufacturer);$pathway->addItem(strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_name));}Then to get your manufacturer links to go directly to the page:In components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/tmpl/default.php

There are still a couple of issues with this. I can't see how to get rid of the 'view all products' link.It's not components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/tmpl/details.php. For now I've hidden it with css, which is probablyfrowned upon!

thanks joely666 for your solution. I did not have the time to test it yet. I will make this test next weekend and post my finals. I will post too how to get rid of the "show all items" button. I found this place earlier and I made some changes with it. I think it was at view.html.php, but I am not sure yet. SOrry I don´t have the time now to have a look at it. I´ll post next weekend.regards slammy

I don't need manufacturer info so i do this and display products while clicking on manufacturer namesThis works for mereplace this line in mod_virtuemart_manufacturer/tmpl/default.php (instead of core file editing do overriding)$link = JROUTE::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=manufacturer&virtuemart_manufactur_id=' . $manufacturer->virtuemart_manufacturer_id);with$link = JROUTE::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_manufacturer_id=' . $manufacturer->virtuemart_manufacturer_id);

I have the pro version of custom filters and still want manufacturers listed with products once it gets clicked on from product details page. It'd simplify things a whole lot for people clicking through the website. the less unnecessary clicks the better.